A Letter from the Editorhttp://muse.jhu.edu/article/617237
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For the past thirteen years, it has been my honor to serve as the editor of Restoration. The journal began at the University of Tennessee under the editorship of Jack Armistead in 1977. After moving with Jack to James Madison and then Tennessee Tech, Restoration relocated to the University of Arizona in 2001 for an all-too brief period with J. Douglas Canfield as editor. I came on as Associate editor in 2002 when Doug found out that he was ill; within a year, Doug was gone and the journal returned to the University of Tennessee in 2003. My colleague John Zomchick joined me as co-editor until the fall of 2012, making it possible for Restoration to continue to publish without interruption.Though I regard myself as
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John Banks’ Restoration tragedy The Innocent Usurper, or, The Death of the Lady Jane Gray (1694) features a heroine with little resemblance to such other seventeenth- and eighteenth-century portrayals of Lady Jane Grey as Nicholas Rowe’s The Tragedy of The Lady Jane Gray (1715),1 Thomas Dekker and John Webster’s The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyat (1607), and the account of Jane in Foxe’s Book of Martyrs (1563). Banks’ Jane is like these other Janes in her virtue and innocence, but while they are often passive and helpless, she is active and aware of her influence. These differences are particularly notable in how these Janes regard their recent marriage. The Jane of Rowe’s Tragedy of Lady Jane Gray is so
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Project MUSE®http://muse.jhu.edu/2016-12-09T00:00:00-05:00http://muse.jhu.edu/journal/415/image/coversmallPregnant Monarchs, English Protestantism, and The Innocent Usurper2016-05-06text/htmlen-USUniversity of TennesseePregnant Monarchs, English Protestantism, and The Innocent UsurperEnglandTheaterDryden, John,Rochester, John Wilmot,English poetryDavis, Paul,2016-05-062016TWOProject MUSE®732922016-12-09T00:00:00-05:002016-05-06A Tale of Two Theatres: Theatrical Rivalry between the King’s Company and the Duke’s Company, 1668-1672http://muse.jhu.edu/article/617239
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The theatrical rivalry between the two Restoration patent acting troupes, the King’s Company and the Duke’s Company, has received relatively little scholarly attention despite its important influence on the development of English drama.1In particular, the period of competition from 1668 to 1672 has often been overlooked.2 A study of theatrical rivalry in this period, however, is especially important. Thomas Betterton with his co-managers had taken over the reins of the management of the Duke’s Company after William Davenant’s death in 1668 and the fire at the King’s playhouse in 1672 was to leave Thomas Killigrew’s troupe badly affected, effectively ending the period of competition in which both companies had stood
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Project MUSE®http://muse.jhu.edu/2016-12-09T00:00:00-05:00http://muse.jhu.edu/journal/415/image/coversmallA Tale of Two Theatres: Theatrical Rivalry between the King’s Company and the Duke’s Company, 1668-16722016-05-06text/htmlen-USUniversity of TennesseeA Tale of Two Theatres: Theatrical Rivalry between the King’s Company and the Duke’s Company, 1668-1672EnglandTheaterDryden, John,Rochester, John Wilmot,English poetryDavis, Paul,2016-05-062016TWOProject MUSE®923942016-12-09T00:00:00-05:002016-05-06The Matchless Orinda and the Imprint of Virtue: Locating Katherine Philips’ Literary Authority in the 1667 Folio Edition of Her Workhttp://muse.jhu.edu/article/617240
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Within a few years following the death of Katherine Philips in 1664, a formalized public representation of her poetic legacy appeared in the form of a folio edition of her work published in 1667. This edition, published by Henry Herringman, was titled Poems By the most deservedly Admired Mrs. Katherine Philips The Matchless Orinda. To which is added, Monsieur Corneille’s Pompey and Horace, Tragedies. With several other Translations out of French. It contained as the frontispiece an engraved image of Philips classically rendered as a bust on a pedestal, followed by an unsigned preface, seven commendatory poems, 117 of her poems, and her translations, as the title indicates. Unlike an earlier “pirated” collection of
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Project MUSE®http://muse.jhu.edu/2016-12-09T00:00:00-05:00http://muse.jhu.edu/journal/415/image/coversmallThe Matchless Orinda and the Imprint of Virtue: Locating Katherine Philips’ Literary Authority in the 1667 Folio Edition of Her Work2016-05-06text/htmlen-USUniversity of TennesseeThe Matchless Orinda and the Imprint of Virtue: Locating Katherine Philips’ Literary Authority in the 1667 Folio Edition of Her WorkEnglandTheaterDryden, John,Rochester, John Wilmot,English poetryDavis, Paul,2016-05-062016TWOProject MUSE®960312016-12-09T00:00:00-05:002016-05-06Owning The English Rogue: Commerce and Reputation in Restoration Authorshiphttp://muse.jhu.edu/article/617241
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What did it mean to ‘own’ a text in the Restoration? The word establishes a proprietary, possessive relationship between an individual author and a work, often thought to have been inaugurated by the Copyright Act of 1710. A text that is ‘one’s own’ is no one else’s – it is not co-authored and not plagiarised from other sources. As a piece of literary property, it may offer financial reward for the author’s labour. Yet, as Jody Greene argues in The Trouble with Ownership, to ‘own’ in this period could also mean to ‘own up to’ – to admit to having been responsible for the work. Although Greene focuses specifically on legal liability, this double meaning of ownership had more general implications for the growing
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Project MUSE®http://muse.jhu.edu/2016-12-09T00:00:00-05:00http://muse.jhu.edu/journal/415/image/coversmallOwning The English Rogue: Commerce and Reputation in Restoration Authorship2016-05-06text/htmlen-USUniversity of TennesseeOwning The English Rogue: Commerce and Reputation in Restoration AuthorshipEnglandTheaterDryden, John,Rochester, John Wilmot,English poetryDavis, Paul,2016-05-062016TWOProject MUSE®796042016-12-09T00:00:00-05:002016-05-06Approaches to Teaching John Dryden ed. by Jayne Lewis and Lisa Zunshine (review)http://muse.jhu.edu/article/617242
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Approaches to Teaching John Dryden is organized into Parts One (Materials) and Two (Approaches), and comprises the thoughtful articles and survey results of 26 contributors who teach Dryden in diverse institutions and across a variety of course settings. In Part One, Jayne Lewis offers a thorough examination of the following practical concerns: primary works available as textbooks (and the advantages and disadvantages of each); online resources, recordings, and artwork (ever changing and ever in need of assessment); background materials, criticism and further reading (a solid review of foundational criticism intended for specialists and generalists alike); and a summary of teacher insights based on the survey
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The late Renaissance scholar Paul Alpers once told me that when he was in graduate school, back in the 1950s, and at Harvard, “Everyone read Rochester, but nobody talked about it.” This was a time when the entity one meant to invoke by “Rochester” was to a significant degree based on erroneous attributions and distorted further by the reluctant censorship of editors like Vivian de Sola Pinto. Rochester was only just on his way to becoming our more plausible, though less prolific, construct built largely by heroic efforts of de-attribution performed by David M. Veith and Harold Love. However, as scholars began to tune out the attributional static and our “Rochester” came into higher resolution, the situation Alpers
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That three of the four books reviewed in this issue of Restoration are an Oxford World’s Classics edition of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester’s poems, a biography of his life, and a collection of scholarly essays on his work, life, and legacy (see above) suggests that it is an exciting time in Rochester studies. The two books reviewed here seek to make Rochester and his works more accessible to wider audiences. Davis’s edition of Rochester’s poems aims “to transmit the fruits of [Harold Love’s] textual scholarship beyond the narrow coterie of specialists to general readers of Rochester’s work” (xliii). Larman’s biography of the Earl’s life and times is written for a general readership and attempts to show how “he is
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